Anne Summers — 50 Years of Damned Whores and God’s Police

In 1975, aged just 29, she wrote a bestselling book that changed Australia. Since then, she's courted controversy and acclaim, but Anne Summers has never given up the fight for gender equality. This conversation was recorded live at the 2025 Sydney Writers' Festival. Speakers Dr Anne Summers Author, Damned Whores and God's Police, Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography 1945-1976, The Misogyny Factor, and many more Professor of domestic and family violence, University of Technology Sydney Journalist, editor, political advisor, advocate Dr Alecia Simmonds (host) Associate Professor in Law, University of Technology Sydney Author, Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law, and Wild Man: The True Story of a Police Killing, Mental Illness and the Law Further information: Tenacity and two squat houses — how an Australian movement was born for women leaving violence Big Ideas, ABC Radio National, Monday 6 May 2024 Baby boycott — the fertility crisis and the big decision Big Ideas, ABC Radio National, Thursday 26 June 2025